![]() Monsieur Lebouc managed to assemble a definitive line-up of eminent performers: Messieurs Saint-Saëns, Diémer, Taffanel, Turban, Maurin, Prioré, de Bailly and Tourcy who, after a very interesting program, took part in the first performance of a very witty fantasy burlesque, composed for this concert by Saint-Saëns and entitled the Carnival of the Animals. He had apparently intended to write the work for his students at the École Niedermeyer de Paris, but it was first performed at a private concert given by the cellist Charles Lebouc on 3 March 1886: ![]() On 9 February 1886 he wrote to his publishers Durand in Paris that he was composing a work for the coming Shrove Tuesday, and confessing that he knew he should be working on his Third Symphony, but that this work was "such fun" ( ". mais c'est si amusant!"). From the beginning he regarded the work as a piece of fun. Le Coucou au fond des bois (The Cuckoo in the Depths of the Woods)įollowing a disastrous concert tour of Germany in 1885–86, Saint-Saëns withdrew to a small Austrian village, where he composed The Carnival of the Animals in February 1886. Personnages à longues oreilles (Characters with Long Ears) ![]() Hémiones (animaux véloces) (Wild Donkeys Swift Animals) Introduction et marche royale du lion (Introduction and Royal March of the Lion)
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